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We have winners for GyroQ!

02 12 06 - 22:05 - Bookmark this post

Last week I wrote a review of the excellent MindManager add-in GyroQ. Yes, I am biased, because I simply love the product. It is transparant, non-obtrusive, there when you need it and highly customizable. Anyway, I wanted to give more people a chance to try this software for themselves. Together with Nick Duffill from Gyronix we wrote out a contest to win one of 5 licenses of GyroQ Developer Edition. Just as a sidenote: Check out Nicks Webinar on MindManager and ResultManager he gave earlier this week. Very interesting!

I must say I am very surprised to have received just three entries! That’s all! With the MindManager contest, I received much more and it was pretty hard to decide the winners. I don’t know why this is. Was the contest not interesting enough? Was it too hard to find? Unclear? I would like to hear from you so I can learn from it for perhaps a next time.

So even though there a just a few winners, I know they will be thrilled to know they have won!

The winners are

Bill Reichard from BigCreekChurch.com. He won the MindManager contest as well. He sent in a new mindmap from his church with the following comment
“The fact that Mindmap links all that information together, allows it to serve as a dashboard with all of my daily tasks, projects and commitments.”
His mindmap is very detailed and has a lot of information. So I will not put it up here for download. You can check out this screenshot to get a view of how he uses MindManager

Kevin Crump is a ResultManager-user and would like to upgrade his GyroQ.
“I run the dashboard first thing every day and RM just goes and scans all my mind maps, extracts the tasks and presents them to me in a very clear fashion.”
His MindMap is a copy of his own dashboard with some sensitive info stripped out. Check out how he also uses some external info like a RSS-feed. It really feels like a dashboard to me!

Marcos D. Alves is our third winner. He sent in an image of his daily todo’s and activities from within a mindmap. You can see his different tools like email, mobile and the web from where he gets his info.

Bill, Kevin and Marcos, thank you for entering and have fun with GyroQ. Let me know how it all works out!

Congrats to all the winners – very good stuff!

I use a mind map only for “strategic” decisions/goals or someday/maybe items. For runway and 10000 feet I use the excellent MyLifeOrganized (www.mylifeorganized.net), so that’s why I didn’t enter in this contest – maybe it was too restrictive?

Regards.
Luciano Passuello - 03 12 06 - 16:44

Congrats to the winners…. Due to some personal troubles I have been out of the country and internet access. I am so sorry I did not have the time to participate in the contest. Even several remninders did not make a difference. I even got one on my car phone going > 100 miles ‘n hour on the French “peage”. So although reminders enough no contribution on my side. Sorry Frank I’ll show you what I do with GyroQ, begging you for personall acknowledgment ;-)

Honest, I love the product. The best part in my opinion is that you can add clipboard content to your thoughts. Briljant!
Martijn - 04 12 06 - 08:54